The latest cohort of Herefords Australia Super Sires have been selected and added to the Super Sires online catalogue. (View the catalogue here.)
Breeders of candidate bulls who met the initial selection criteria were notified at the beginning of June and given the opportunity to nominate one of their eligible bulls for the program.
Seven new sires who met the initial selection criteria have been nominated for the program:
- Elite M202 Q008
- Jarrah Fortune Q236
- Kidman Hitman Q067
- Quamby Plains Qantas Q467
- Tobruk Queenstown Q004
- Wirruna Quarterback Q281
- Warringa Rumpole R206
These seven sires have now been catalogued along with the existing Super Sires which are:
- Wirruna Matty M288 (Phase One Sire)
- Ravensdale Spark M037
- Glentrevor Trust N909
- Wirruna Pilot P054
- Elite M202 P101
- Tarcombe McLaren Q203
- Injemira Robert Redford Q287
As with the six bulls added to the catalogue with the introduction of Phase Two of the Super Sires Program last December, anyone wishing to purchase semen in any of the newly listed sires must contact individual breeders/owners of bulls for semen pricing and purchase.
Once a nominated bull is accepted into the Super Sires program, he will remain classed as a Super Sire regardless of future changes in his EBVs or indexes.
The selection list for phase two of the Super Sire Program is generated twice in a 12-month period, at the beginning of December and the beginning of June.
Selection criteria is as follows:
Animal Details
- Animal is Active
- Animal is Male
- Registration Status: HBR
- Age range – Four (4) consecutive Calving Years: (eg Round 1>= 2016 & <= 2019) with rollover in November each year
- Sire Verification (SV)
- LD (low density) genotype analysed
- Recessive Condition status – HY Status: HYF or HYFU, DL Status: DLF or DLFU, IE Status: IEF or IEFU, MSUD Status: MSUDF or MSUDFU
BREEDPLAN
- Observed post-birth weight performance: 200day and/or 400day and/or 600day (min. 2 traits)
- Observed Scrotal Measurement
- Observed Ultrasound Scan data (Fats, EMA, IMF%)
- TOP 25% Calving Ease DIR (%), Calving Ease DIR (%) Acc. > 35,
- TOP 25% 400 Day Wt (kg), 400 Day Wt (kg) Acc. > 60,
- = > Breed AVG. Scrotal Size (cm), Scrotal Size (cm) Acc. > 60,
- TOP 25% Eye Muscle Area (sq cm), Eye Muscle Area (sq cm) Acc. > 40,
- TOP 5% IMF (%), IMF (%) Accuracy > 45,
- TOP 5% $Index
